Pía
given name · Latin script
Meaning: piha (bird) (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: SRCEI, 2021
/pia/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated · uncertain
Pía is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country: 23,359 people, counted by the Danmarks Statistik, which ranks it 15th.
- DKDenmark1 in 251(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 442
- FIFinland1 in 459
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Denmark (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 221 (measured from records)
- 1 in 251 (inferred from the name graph)
23,359 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Pia in CL Chile, SE Sweden, FI Finland and 3 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
How to pronounce Pía
- Spanish:/pia/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)piha (bird)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Pía counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | — | 23,359 | 1 in 251 | 23K | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 23,101 | 1 in 442 | 23K | Pia | 41 |
| FI Finland | #380 | 12,148 | 1 in 459 | 14K | Pia | 20 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 5K | 20 | Pia | 57 |
| CL Chile | #236 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | 242 | Pia | 116 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈6,500 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 39 | Pia | 16 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 2,321 | 1 in 906 | 2.3K | — | 8 |
| UY Uruguay | #154 | ≈800 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | — | Pia | 41 |
23,359 people counted by Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Pía is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Devota
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In jpx-pro, 1 room, place (in a dwelling) 2 place, surroundings
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In Icelandic, maidservant
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In roa-leo, foot
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, sink
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Pía Barrosb. 1956CLChilean writer
- María Pía Copellob. 1977PEPeruvian television presenter
- Pia Wurtzbachb. 1989PHFilipino actress and beauty pageant titleholder
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Pía a male or female name?
- Pía is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Argentina (datos.gob.ar, 2015) and Chile (SRCEI, 2021).
- What does the name Pía mean, and where does it come from?
- piha (bird) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Pía?
- In the etymology graph, Piia is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Pía?
- In Spanish /pia/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people named Pía?
- In Denmark, the national register counted about 23 thousand people named Pía, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Sweden, Finland, Italy and Chile; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Pía most common?
- Pía is densest in Denmark, where the national register counts about 1 in 251 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Pía?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 23,359 people named Pía, about 1 in 251 residents.
- How common is Pía compared with other names?
- In Uruguay, Pía is the 154th most common given name of 12,212 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Pía?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/p%C3%ADaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Pía” — ranked 15th in Denmark (Danmarks Statistik). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.